Horses can tell when human voices and facial expressions don’t match

Horses are able to use different senses to distinguish human emotion – and recognise when facial expressions do not match a person’s tone of voice, a study has indicated.

Researchers from universities in Tokyo showed horses pictures of people with either happy or angry expressions, and then played them recordings of either gentle or scolding human voices.

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Article written by: Eleanor Jones